Article the Second
Immediately after the ratifications of this Treaty by both parties as
hereinafter mentioned, orders shall be sent to the Armies, Squadrons,
Officers, Subjects, and Citizens of the two Powers to cease from all
hostilities: and to prevent all causes of complaint which might arise
on account of the prizes which may be taken at sea after the said
Ratifications of this Treaty, it is reciprocally agreed that all
vessels and effects which may be taken after the space of twelve days
from the said Ratifications upon all parts of the Coast of North
America from the Latitude of twenty three degrees North to the
Latitude of fifty degrees North, and as far Eastward in the Atlantic
Ocean as the thirty sixth degree of West Longitude from the Meridian
of Greenwich, shall be restored on each side:-that the time shall be
thirty days in all other parts of the Atlantic Ocean North of the
Equinoctial Line or Equator:-and the same time for the British and
Irish Channels, for the Gulf of Mexico, and all parts of the West
Indies:-forty days for the North Seas for the Baltic, and for all
parts of the Mediterranean-sixty days for the Atlantic Ocean South of
the Equator as far as the Latitude of the Cape of Good Hope.- ninety
days for every other part of the world South of the Equator, and one
hundred and twenty days for all other parts of the world without
exception.
